Da Vinci Notebooks by Leonardo Vinci & Emma Dickens

Author:Leonardo Vinci & Emma Dickens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2005-03-14T05:00:00+00:00

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Disgrace should be represented upside down, because all her deeds are contrary to God and tend to hell.

Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.

This Evil Report is born of life.

A felled tree which is shooting again.

I am still hopeful.

A falcon,

Time.

Short liberty.

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Notes on sculpture

If you wish to make a figure in marble, first make one of clay, and when you have finished it, let it dry and place it in a case which should be large enough, after the figure is taken out of it, to receive also the marble, from which you intend to reveal the figure in imitation of the one in clay. After you have put the clay figure into this said case, have little rods which will exactly slip into the holes in it, and thrust them so far in at each hole that each white rod may touch the figure in different parts of it. And colour the portion of the rod that remains outside black, and mark each rod and each hole with a countersign so that each may fit into its place. Then take the clay figure out of this case and put in your piece of marble, taking off so much of the marble that all your rods may be hidden in the holes as far as their marks; and to be the better able to do this, make the case so that it can be lifted up; but the bottom of it will always remain under the marble and in this way it can be lifted with tools with great ease.

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